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Old 10-31-2007, 04:49 PM   #1
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I watched in interesting doco on CCTV in England last night. There's actually only 130 (or close to that figure) cameras in the whole of the country which surprised me. I would have thought there'd be more.

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Not to get involved in this debate one way or another, but this article says that "There are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain - about one for every 14 people."
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Old 10-31-2007, 04:59 PM   #2
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Not to get involved in this debate one way or another, but this article says that "There are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain - about one for every 14 people."
It's possible that I misheard. Perhaps they were talking about a particular section of a grid or something?

I'm sure the poms here can give us the facts anyway. Besides, I did say I thought there'd be more, so at least I can content myself with that.
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